A Road to Mental Health Through the Kitchen

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... can create local we all be a path to better mental health experts are increasingly ... turning to cooking therapy for patients in need ... but can we all get a boost in the kitchen here with the story is doubly SJ reporter Jeanne Whalen Jeanne thanks much for being with us ... how is this cooking there be and what types of mental health issues ... it best defenses ... so ... it ... there was a great easy for people with a variety of species from substance abuse teen depression and schizophrenia so it's it's use for quite a wider range of mental ... disorders and what was the typical treatment is that begin with shopping for being greedy and said what sorts of ... dishes do you make and sell the hand her time that I'm in it and there is also focuses on the cooking lesson itself and paid the therapist trying to ... encourage the making of healthy dishes so um ... if they didn't get that one tree etc divert about its treatment center for teens up in kinetic it ... be that the ... chef ... cooks it to continue on and helps the kids follow along with your ingredients ... another ... the ... program never heard about that ... in Kansas City there's a cafe that an occupational therapist oh and ... where local people with mental health problems come in and cook the food and serve it to people in the local community to give them a little social interaction as well so ... in social interaction is another way to come his car to try cooking with someone for someone which is really very social ... looking out for you I don't find cooking particularly relax they actually still rest of me out because I trade a master that has to be cleaned out ... so it doesn't work for is there some signs that shows what cooking does to our brain fitness there is a little bit of a ton of clinical research on this it's mostly done in the care is using a real world they're going to come across one study that showed that ... in patients and he mental health ... clinic in the U K E ... and a couple of bread baking Watson's boosted their confidence and or their sense of home write comments on how things are happening I ... the the the the ... the ... they're being sent me say yes I love this cooking makes me feel great ... this has to get set to gain weight which could lead to depression ... that's great so yes depression often goes hand in hand with a Cambridge based on some anti depressants can can cause weight gain ... so in that they're beside top to really emphasize the making of healthy foods and vegetables all I can think ... I didn't speak to several UN ... bakers who said how much they loved baking cakes and cookies and how that for them was in a way to cook on anxiety and depression ... but that they had put on weight after doing it ... so the trick is you got to have a lot of people to look for the rest of it I'll break the one with the Atomic that she ran out of school bake sales and tokens for the parties to ... just get rid of her stops she had the kind of cut back on her pink lovely it sounds but alright will think you so much E-mail give it another shot of the kids at my bake ... a skier